Samba-Memento

Memento to create Samba servers on Linux systems !

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Prerequisite :

You can install Samba via these commands :

apt install samba -y

For Debian distributions or

dnf install samba -y

For RedHat ones

Of course, your equipment must be connected on a LAN and preferably with a static address.

In fact, it will much easier to access to the samba server if the equipment has a static address not provided by a DHCP server.

I - Create a Samba server

Once Samba is downloaded, you have to create the directory where you want users have to access. With mkdir command create the folder. For the example, we will use the directory /home/pi/shared/public.

Then, open with nano or vim the configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf. Add the following lines :

[MyAwesomeSambaServer]
path = /home/pi/shared/public
writeable=Yes
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no

Key	Description
[MyAwesomeSambaServer]	Name of your Samba configuration, you can freely choose it. Moreover, it defines the point at which you will access the share. For example, ours will be at the following address: \\raspberrypi\MyAwesomeSambaServer.
path	Directory of the folder we created before.
writeable	When this option is set to “Yes“, it will allow the folder to be writable.
create mask	This option defines the maximum permissions for files.
directory mask	This option defines the maximum permissions for folders.
public	If this is set to “no” the Samba server will require a valid user to grant access to the shared folder.

Finally, restart the Samba server to load our configuration changes :

sudo systemctl restart smbd

II - Authentification to the Samba server

To add a minimum of security, we will create a user with a password to prevent not authorized access to our Samba server. First, enter the command :

sudo smbpasswd -a <name_of_the_user>

Then, enter the password of the user.

III - Access to the Samba server

To access to your samba server, you will need to get the name of your Samba configuration (in this example : MyAwesomeSambaServer) and the NetBios name or the IP address of the server. This access depends of the operating system.

On Windows :

Follow this tutorial : https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-map-a-network-drive-in-windows-10

On Mac OS :

Follow this tutorial : https://www.riohondo.edu/its/how-to-connect-to-a-network-shared-folder-with-mac-os-x/

On Linux :

Follow this tutorial : https://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/04/connect-to-your-samba-server-from-linux/

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Updated : 30/08/2022, Author : Xen0rInspire